ADJECTIVE
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without mercy or pity
an act of ruthless ferocity
a monster of remorseless cruelty
How To Use unpitying In A Sentence
- The unpitying glares he gave as he slashed his opponents.
- Was there a heart beneath that unfeeling, unpitying character?
- The conversation sticks with me; if I close my eyes, I can hear the inflections of his speech, the tone of voice that spoke unpityingly, straightforwardly, of his life.
- Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
- At the end, when the text hints at redemption, the music turns, unpityingly, yet more brutal.
- When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and offhandedly as a whistling tinker his hammer.
- The last element required for the success of the future hoax was a savage, unpitying streak which both of them had in abundance.
- Her flesh was torn and raw and now unpityingly scorched on that side exposed to the caustic desert sun.
- Aldo Rossi was one of the twentieth century's most tender and thoughtful writers about the city, so it is a paradox that his urban work was often exceedingly tough, inhuman and unpitying.
- Un ought never to be prefixed to a participle present to mark a forbearance of action, as unsighing, but a privation of habit, as unpitying. A Grammar of the English Tongue